Overview

ProcessForce enhances Material Requirements Planning (MRP) in SAP Business One, leveraging its built-in features for seamless production planning and order management.

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If you experience delays when opening the MRP Wizard with ProcessForce enabled, consider setting up Direct Data Access mode. This can improve response time, especially in systems with a large number of Item Master Data records.

Click here to learn how to set up Direct Access mode for a specific database.

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Introduction

ProcessForce integrates with the SAP Business One MRP Wizard and Order Recommendation forms, maintaining familiar workflows while adding advanced manufacturing functionality.

• The MRP Wizard runs as it would in SAP Business One.
• The Order Recommendation form enables the creation of ProcessForce Manufacturing Orders.
• Manufacturing Orders are scheduled using backward scheduling, ensuring production aligns with required due dates.

Configuration

To see configuration details, visit the Enable Synchronization and MRP-related configuration within General Settings.

Operation

• Run the MRP Wizard in the regular manner

  

• Save Recommendations at the end of the MRP run

• Select Order Recommendation from the context menu

  

• Select which Production Order to create

• Press "Update" button

  

• The system displays a confirmation message with the number of orders created.

  

• A report listing all documents created using the Order Recommendation option is displayed at the end of the document creation

  

• Manufacturing Order is created:

  • its status is set to Scheduled
  • Scheduled Backwards from the Required Date

  

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